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FOLDING SCREEN.

No. 447,461. Patented Mar. 3,1891.

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JAMES XV. )AMPBELL, OF GERMANTOW'N, ASSIGNOR TO FERGUSON BROTHERS, OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,461, dated March1891.

Application filed October 20, 1890. Serial No. 368,623. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. CAMPBELL, of Germantown, in the county ofColumbia, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Folding Screens, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of a folding screen having two panels, which beingpivoted to connecting-bars thereby form a third or central panel, oneupright of each outside panel forming also an upright forthe centerpanel, and the object of my invention is first to lessen the cost ofmanufacture, and at the same time produce a screen as attractive in ap--pearance as those now in the market, and, second, to make a screen thatwill niorereadily adapt itself to the inequalities of the flooring; andmy invention further consists in certain novel features of constructionto be hereinafter more fully described.

A practical embodiment of myinvention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in

Figure l is a view in perspective of a screen embodying my invention.Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view, in section, of the means for pivotingthe panels to the upper connecting-bar. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detailview, in section, of the means for pivoting the panels to the lowerconnecting bar. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view in section, thesection being taken on the'line age of Fig. 1.

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A A represent the two outer panels of the screen, which are each made upof a framework consisting of two uprights a a and two lateral bars Z)Z). The uprights do are pivoted at either end 0 c to two connecting-barsO O. This may be conveniently done, as shown more clearly in Fig. 2, byboring a hole 0 in the connecting-bar, into which one of the uprights awill fit as a pivot and securing the same by passing a screw c throughthe connecting-bar into the upright. The

space inclosed by the uprights a a and the connecting-bars G 0' nowforms a third orcentral panel A each of the uprights a a serving thedouble purpose of acting as an upright for the center and one outsidepanel.

panel A rests on feet D. As shown more clearly in Fig. 3, these feet areattached to the pivot, or, in other words, the same screw 0'; whichpasses through the connecting-bar G into upright a also passes throughthe said feet D and secures them in position.

E designates slats to which the curtains are attached. Straps F, asshown clearlyin Fig. 4, connect the said slats E to the bars 0 C. Thesestraps are rendered necessary in the central panel on account of themovement of the uprights a a, which prevents the slats being attached tothem, as is usual; but, though I have shown them on the outside panelsalso, they need not, necessarily, be used, as the ordinary form ofattachment would serve the purpose equally well.

A screen made as here described and illus trated will, on account of themanner of pivoting the panels together, very readily adjust itself toany inequality in the flooring, as a slight twist in the center panelwould raise or lower the outer ones according to its direction. Suchslight twist will not injure to any appreciable degree the structure, asa whole, since the pivotal connection between the cross-bar and sideframes of the center panel will always admit of some play.

hat I claim as my invention is The combination, with two outer panelshaving rigid frames, each consisting of two uprights and cross-barsconnecting the uprights, of an intermediate panel formed by a pair ofcross-bars pivotally connected at their opposite ends with the adjacentuprights or the rigid frames of-the outer panels, substantially as setforth.

JAMES W. CAMPBELL.

WVitness'es:

FREDK. HAYNES, GEORGE BARRY.

